Applicants with reserved access

If you have reserved access to the programme that you are applying for you are not required to document your proficiency in English.

All other applicants

All other applicants must document qualifications on par with the Danish upper secondary school ‘English level B' with an average weighted score of 3 or ‘English level A’ with a weighted average of minimum 2 on the Danish grading scale.

We accept the following ways of documenting this:

1) You have studied a full degree in English

An English taught qualifying upper secondary school diploma, Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK or Ireland will exempt you from the language requirement. A student exchange semester/year will not exempt you from the language requirement.

2) English proficiency

If you have not studied a full degree in English you must:

Either document that you have passed Danish upper secondary school 'English level B' (Engelsk B) with the minimum weighted average grade of 3 on the Danish grading scale

Or document that you have passed Danish upper secondary school ‘English level A’ (Engelsk A) with the minimum weighted average grade of 2 on the Danish grading scale

Or document that you are holding a Nordic entrance examination with an English level which is considered comparable to a Danish B level in English by the Danish Agency of International Education. And with a weighted grade comparable to at least 3 on the Danish grading scale See a comparison of the Nordic subject levels and grades: Nordic subject levels (in Danish)

Or you must pass an IELTS Academic, TOEFL, Cambridge Advanced English or Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) test.

There is no period of limitation for validity of Danish upper secondary school 'English level A’' (Engelsk A) or ‘English level B’ (Engelsk B).

You must send us your documentation as soon as possible and no later than 1 July.

If you fail to prove your language proficiency before 1 July, your admission will be cancelled.

Document by passed English proficiency test

Name of test

Minimum score

Your different options for giving us the needed information

IELTS (Academic)

6.5 (overall test score). Only the overall score will be considered.

Upload your test score sheet in the application portal.

If you have difficulties uploading the test score sheet, please e-mail us your test score sheet, and then we can verify it online.

TOEFL

Internet-based test (IBT)

ITP TOEFL- test

(MyBest Scores are not accepted)

83560

Please note that you have to add our institutional code (0177) as the recipient, so we can verify the result online. You can check if the institutional code has been added to your profile on the test score sheet.

Cambridge Advanced (CAE) orCambridge Proficiency (CPE)

Passed at level C1 or C2

E-mail us your ID-number and Secret Number, and then we can verify the result online.

Inform your test centre that Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen are allowed to check your results in the CAE online verification system and then let us know when the result is available to us.

Due to the Corona situation we will extraordinarily accept the TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition for the 2020 student intake. You can read more about this test on the ETS website.

Please notice:

IELTS and TOEFL tests older than 2 years are not accepted (counted from the programme application deadline). There is no period of limitation for validity of the Cambridge tests.

If you have not yet completed a language test by the programme application deadline, you are required to send us your test score as soon as possible and in no case later than 1 July.

If you fail to prove your language proficiency before 1 July, your admission will be cancelled.